Simon Willison’s Weblog

19th February 2025

TIL Using S3 triggers to maintain a list of files in DynamoDB — This is a three-quarters-baked experiment that I ran this morning. I'm interested in efficiently tracking which new files have been added to an S3 bucket, where that bucket could potentially hold millions of items.

Posted 19th February 2025 at 9:44 pm

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